Rae Ellen Bichell
Rae Ellen Bichell is a reporter for NPR's Science Desk. She first came to NPR in 2013 as a Kroc fellow and has since reported Web and radio stories on biomedical research, global health, and basic science. She won a 2016 Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award from the Foundation for Biomedical Research. After graduating from Yale University, she spent two years in Helsinki, Finland, as a freelance reporter and Fulbright grantee.
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There’s wide variability in state policies about what care to give to women who are pregnant and behind bars. That’s according to a new report from the...
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A report out this week found that people seeking mental health treatment go out-of-network more than they do for primary care. Essentially, that means...
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Colorado researchers launched a website Tuesday to help people make difficult decisions about living with dementia. An estimated 5 million people in the...
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Researchers writing in the journal Science found that when kids get measles, it can cause “amnesia” in the immune system. In much of the Mountain West,...
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A growing number of pharmacists across the country are now offering birth control directly to patients -- no doctor’s visit required. That includes...
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Governors of Western states have signed letters supporting a pair of bills that would compensate more people who were exposed to radiation from nuclear...
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Chronic wasting disease is continuing to pop up in deer and elk populations around the Mountain West. But researchers have found one way to help prevent...
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A few months ago, Tricia Shields was having a regular day at work. “I think I was daydreaming at my desk,” says Shields, a resident of Parker, Colorado,...
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Wildland firefighters use fire retardant — the red stuff that air tankers drop — to suppress existing blazes. But Stanford researchers have developed a...
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Scores of counties across the U.S. have no local newspaper, and some that do say they're not being well-served by them. Longmont, Colo., is considering one possible solution: newsrooms in libraries.
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Instructor Graham Dunne is holding up some printouts with faces on them. He tells his students they're smaller than real heads. "Here's some useless...
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The Mountain West has some of the highest rates of depression and suicide. Researchers think the mountains, with a lack of oxygen at high altitude, could be interfering with people's mental health.